Well, if anybody actually reads this, you may have not have been since there hasn’t been much activity as of late. I’ve been gone for the last couple months, but I’m back now, so I’ll be getting back to my photography (and with it this site) shortly.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 1:05 am by Matt Bisgaier
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If you look carefully at any of my photos on Flickr, you may notice that most of them are geotagged — embedded with the GPS coordinate where they were taken. Up until now I’ve done this manually, and it sucks. I can never be exactly sure of where I was when I took a lot of pictures (such as when I’m hiking or in a place without landmarks visible from satellite imagery). Yesterday, though, I went out with an early Christmas present that I bought myself.
Actually it should have just been a purchase, but thanks to Fed Ex it didn’t arrive when it should have, so it became an early Christmas gift. Anyways, it’s a Trackstick, a handy little gadget that looks like an oversized USB flash memory key. Powered by batteries, it records my GPS tracks. Add those into locr, and I can now automatically geotag where I was when I took pictures. Much more convenient, and accurate. To test it out I went back to the Blue Ridge Parkway yesterday and took some pictures with it in my pocket.

Posted on December 25th, 2007 at 3:25 pm by Matt Bisgaier
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We had one call last night. Philipsburg is pretty dead at night, but Front Street stays lit. This was the view during the early morning hours. The shot is a tone mapped HDR, processed through Photomatix.
Posted on December 12th, 2007 at 12:41 am by Matt Bisgaier
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I was working Saturday night and nothing was going on, so when I saw this scene outside the station I thought I’d get to work on photographing it. The result is an HDR image that took some patience to get — the D200 bracketing only supports exposures up to 30 seconds, and in order to adequately capture the darker areas I had to do exposures up to two minutes.
Thankfully I’ve got a Nikon MC-36 multifunction remote that makes taking these longer exposures much easier, so I other than having to sit around and wait, the process wasn’t too difficult. Check out Flickr for the original LDR images, they aren’t too shabby, either.
Posted on December 10th, 2007 at 7:54 am by Matt Bisgaier
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